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First Export Edition, printed by William Clowes & Sons, unpriced dustwrapper and other points confirming. A beautiful Fine copy in dark blue cloth, in a Fine glossy purple dustwrapper with medallions. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. 365pp. with map folded inside rear free endpaper. Brilliant copy. Q20712.

The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic stories by the English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from fantasy fiction writer Guy Gavriel Kay. It is the primary source of Middle-earth's ancient history and provides a background to his other works, including 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'